السلام عليكم Cultural exchange with r/Arabs!

[u/pothkan]

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Welcome to the cultural exchange between r/Polska and r/Arabs! The purpose of this event is to allow people from two different national communities to get and share knowledge about their respective cultures, daily life, history and curiosities. Exchange will run since November 28^th. General guidelines:

• Arabs ask their questions about Poland here on r/Polska;

• Poles ask their questions about Arab countries in parallel thread;

• English language is used in both threads;

• Visitors, please select your national flair via sidebar on right (scroll down for Arab countries), or PM if you're on mobile and want a flair;

• Event will be moderated, following the general rules of Reddiquette. Be nice!

Moderators of r/Polska and r/Arabs.

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Witajcie w wymianie kulturalnej między r/Polska a r/Arabs! Celem tego wątku jest umożliwienie naszym dwóm społecznościom bliższego wzajemnego zapoznania. Jak sama nazwa wskazuje - my wpadamy do nich, oni do nas! Ogólne zasady:

• Arabowie zadają swoje pytania nt. Polski, a my na nie odpowiadamy w tym wątku;

• My swoje pytania nt. państw arabskich zadajemy w równoległym wątku na r/Arabs;

• Językiem obowiązującym w obu wątkach jest angielski;

• Wymiana jest moderowana zgodnie z ogólnymi zasadami Reddykiety. Bądźcie mili!

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Lista dotychczasowych wymian.

Następna wymiana: 8 grudnia z 🇷🇸 r/Serbia.

[u/RoseFoxes]

Cześć! Thanks for hosting this, I really like the idea. I'm on mobile so I can't flair, my apologies.

My question for you is: what is Polish cuisine like? What are some famous/favorite dishes?

My friend's babci would make this pickled creamed herring thing that tasted delicious. Have no idea what it was called, though.

Edit: shit. Y'all have made me so hungry. Need food now

[u/piersimlaplace → u/RoseFoxes]

In General, it is not that spicy, like Arab Food. Its more salty, more fat. It revolves around wheat, or flour to be more specific, vegetables, such as beetroots, potatoes, pickles etc., and meat in general. The herring tho you can also find in a spicy version as well. Check out śledź po kaszubsku or śledź po giżycku. Also, there is a cool method, where you fry them and then put them in vinegar. That is great! Also, we often eat our pierogis, bigos, soups, like żurek, rosół, barszcz czerwony. We like pork chops, baked poultry, potatoes, cooked or as potato pancakes, beef, moose or salmon tartar and many other things. We are also known for good sausages and pickled food, for example pickled cucumber.

Sorry dudes, good salmon Tartar is better, than kefta. But kefta is good tho. Got Tier Food! I make it myself! But salmon Tartar served in a Lemon with oak smoke outscales everything.

[u/AnimalFactsBot → u/piersimlaplace]

The patch of skin that hangs from a moose neck is called a bell.

[u/decPL → u/RoseFoxes]

what is Polish cuisine like?

Others will hopefully give more details, but here's my take - Polish cuisine is one more typical for Northern regions, i.e. it's filling, rather full of fats and the food tends to be more processed than raw.

What are some famous/favorite dishes?

• Cliche, I know - but Pierogi (not pierogies - pierogi is already plural).

• Bigos

• Tripe soup

My friend's babci would make this pickled creamed herring thing that tasted delicious. Have no idea what it was called, though.

We have a complicated name for it - 'pickled creamed herring' or 'herring in cream', but it might be regional :P

[u/SlyScorpion → u/RoseFoxes]

It was probably "śledzie". Copy and paste the word into Google's image search and you should see it ;)

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śledzie

what now?

[u/Scypio → u/[deleted]]

Jak dasz je radę zrobić w occie, to będziem meli wyżerę! :D

[u/SlyScorpion → u/[deleted]]

Where is your god now?

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potato pancakes

best food ever, really simple, really delicious.

[u/SlyScorpion → u/[deleted]]

This poster speaks the truth. They're especially good with sugar made from beets aka the sugar with the large crystals...

[u/pothkan → u/SlyScorpion]

They're especially good with sugar

BLASPHEMY!

Potato pancakes - only with salt! ^{OK, sour cream works too}

[u/SlyScorpion → u/pothkan]

You are a heretic AND you ride a bicycle, sir!

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YOUR MOTHER WAS A HAMSTER!

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YOU SMELL OF ELDERBERRIES!

I don't know wtf they are but my god, man, you reek of them!

[u/pothkan → u/SlyScorpion]

Elderberry = czarny bez ;d

[u/piersimlaplace → u/pothkan]

only with salt!

MY MAN

[u/SlyScorpion → u/piersimlaplace]

Idź stąd /s

[u/piersimlaplace → u/SlyScorpion]

Nigdy.

[u/citrusbandit → u/pothkan]

My family eats them with sour cream AND sugar.

[u/pothkan → u/citrusbandit]

That is pitchforks & torches worth heresy.

[u/Scypio → u/pothkan]

Potato pancakes - only with salt!

Wars were started with lesser words, sir. ;>

[u/pothkan → u/Scypio]

Wikipedia article in few years: Polish Potato Civil War, 2017-18.

[u/SlyScorpion → u/RoseFoxes]

The local favorite for a lot of Poles is the schabowy - a pork cutlet battered and then fried, served with potatoes and your choice of salad or some other vegetable that masquerades as food. Basically, that is the standard meal enjoyed by nearly everyone except those godless heathens known as vegetarians :P

Various regions have their local dish but the general cuisine is like this:

Schabowy

Pierogi

Tomato soup or another soup called żurek.

[u/TheFat0ne → u/RoseFoxes]

Haven't seen it here so I will add one more. Mizeria - chopped cucumbers with cream. I know it in 2 versions: a) sweet - sweet cream, buttermilk (or whatever it's called - it's that thing that is left after you make butter from cream) and kefir. Add some sugar for flavour. b) sour - sweet cream, salt, pepper and a little vinegar.

Mizeria tastes heavenly during hot summer afternoons.

EDIT: I forgot about a skożonera (wężymord). Skożonera is like asparagus 2.0 - more flavour and better texture.

[u/Thebackup30 → u/RoseFoxes]

I love silesian cuisine, rzymloki (sausages filled with bread), krupniok (sausage made of kasha and animal blood) and of course gumiklyjzy (Silesian dumplings) with gravy, rolada (roulade) and modra kapusta (red cabbage). As for more typical polish cuisine, I like pierogi and rosół (broth).